Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan .m._: ALAN LENHOFF=:.--. 10 The secret. of the top-secret salaries 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1972 NIGHT EDITOR: CARLA RAPOPORT Police violence ONCE AGAIN, police have gone a good bit beyond the bounds of "keeping the peace," as they dispersed yesterday's anti- war protest at U.S. 23 with clubs and dogs. The 1,000-plus some young people had marched into the streets for a good rea- son. Nationally and locally, the years of passive protest against U.S. aggression in Indochina had failed to stymie Nixon's war plans - plans which have brought nothing but destruction and suffering to the Indochinese and American families while aiding big business and the corrupt Thieu regime. By stopping traffic at key intersections, these people were registering in a visible way their opposition to these policies. BUT IT WAS the police who committed the violence. City police called in county and state reinforcements - nei- ther of whom have treated young people fairly in the past - to reclaim the stretch of highway. Washtenaw County Sheriff Doug Har- vey has not had a chance to "bust heads" in Ann Arbor for well over a year. Yes- terday, he tried to make up for it, direct- ing his men to unite with city and state police and swing clubs at everything with long hair that moved. For the most part, those in cars were treated as the "establishment" and treat- ed kindly, while those on foot were sub- ject to the clubs. THE BRUTALITY was most blatant on the bridge, where U.S. 23 crosses over Washtenaw Ave. There the demonstrators made their stand, and there, police. "freed" the bridge with a violence that was swift and vengeful. None of the warnings required by law were given. No bullhorns told demon- strators to disperse, and no five-minute interval allowed those that wished a chance to leave. Instead, the police, some with the Ger- man shepherds that are Harvey's special pride, crashed into the crowd, pushing people over the protective railing and down the steep embankment. THOSE WHO took the highway as a pro- test for peace are to be commended. They should also remember *one lesson learned at the protest: That once the U.S. is out of Indochina, a high priority must be to deal with the arms of the law who have once again proved they don't know WITH THE steep . tuition in- creases of the past few years, students ought to be demanding more information about what their money is being'used to fund. But a warning is appropriate: University officials are determined to keep their budgetary information un- der wraps. A good case in point is salary listings. The University pay list is one of this institution's most closely guarded secrets. In fact, even after salary lists at Michigan State University were made public several months ago by it's Board of Trustees, The Daily has come across confidential memos from top University administrators who are adamantly refusing to pro- vide similar salary information to interested parties. Among those interested groups are women and blacks who want to know if they are getting equal pay for equal work. Anti-war groups want to know how much the University is paying professors who do little beyond their war re- search. And the State Legislature wants to know which professors are pulling in big salaries but not spending any time in the class- room. But it's not easy to hide the salaries of thousands of University employes. Some are bound to come to light. FOR EXAMPLE, President Rob- ben Fleming last year took home $56,800 before taxes. Home, by the way, is the University-owned Pres- ident's Mansion on South Univer- sity, which he lives in free of charge. Others, of course, make less generous salaries. Vice President for Financial Af- fairs Wilbur Pierpont is the sec- ond highes paid Executive Offi- cer, making $49,600 last year. He is followed by Vice Presidents Smith ($47,000), Fauri ($39,000), Norman ($38,950), Radock ($36,- 600), and Knauss ($33,000). Things have changed slightly in the last year. With modest: salary increases, it seems reasonable to assume that these men will each be making $2,000-$4,000 more next fall. Also, Student Services Vice President Knauss has left the University and will be replaced by City School Board member Hen- ry Johnson. Johnson, being inex- perienced, will make only $27,000. And Research Vice President Norman is retiring. His successor, Charles Overburger will probably earn about $40,000 a year. What is most surprising about these secret salaries, is that in many circles, they would be termed modest. Fleming, for example, makes significantly less money than many " presidents at universities which match ours in prestige. And Chief Financial Officer Wilbur Pierpont would almost cer- tainly make a minimum of $20,000 more annually if he were in the employ of private industry in a similar capacity. SO WHY ALL the secrecy? Actually, most of the effort to keep salaries secret is done to stop bickering at the departmental level. Department heads, who set salary levels in their units, are glad to avoid the gripes of facul- ty members who would compare their salaries to those of their colleagues. In addition, many departments have their prize half-time ap- pointees - prestigious professors -often politicians or authors with little teaching experience - who teach one or two classes and rake in a fat paycheck.. Equally embarassing to the Uni- versity could be the revelation of some of the outrageous salaries that some highly esteemed full- time faculty receive. An unofficial administration re- port made available to TheDaily lists three professors making over $50,000 annually, and a total of 37 professors making over $40,000 annually.4 The median salary for profes- sors is about $25,000-$30,000 per year. But despite the University's stubborn refusal to make the sal. aries of these public employes known, more salary information may be forthcoming. State representatives have tra- ditionally had little respect for the bureaucratic tangle that Uni- versity officials have created on this campus and several have threatened to release the list. So more of the University's sal- aries may be revealed. And it's all for the best because you have a right to know where your tuition and tax dollars are going. 'St Mayor misinterprets' air war ordinance the meaning of the word "pe -TAMMY JAC Editorial Dir -MARK DILL] Editorial Pag Demands for the Regents DISRUPTING the Regents' meeting may be only an, attention-getting device, rather than producing real gains for black students interested in the Afro-American Cultural Living Unit. But after unsuc- cessfully trying the traditional methods of negotiating, blacks are forced to move to other levels of action. They plan to charge the University with illegal dis- crimination in court. As Lee Gill said, as students forced .. and Poll. Sei. ON ANOTHER FRONT, minority stu- dents are encountering other diffi- culties at the University. Recently the Political Science Department faculty elected new but reactionary members to its executive committee, according to black students. Political Science tenured professors effectively organized and cam- paigned extensively to elect a group spe- cifically against the Black Matters Com- mittee, the Women's Caucus, the Political Economy Group, other minorities. These groups have proposed the establishment of a political economy subfield within the department, admission policies more fa- vorable for lower class whites, women and blacks, curriculum reform, and more graduate representation in departmental decision making affairs, all rejected. DESPITE THE department's so-called concern, the faculty elected executive committee members who seem to be cer- tainly against liberal political reform movements within the department. From the composition of the department's leadership, it is apparent that channels for constructive change have been sub- stantially closed for those sincerely in- terested in legitimate and innovative de- mands for change. -G.P. the adjournment of yesterday's "We will not sit idly by." And th sity has proven that if we si they will continually disrespe After attempting to ameliorat ative conditions which affect 1 dents here, black students say will no longer tolerate the U racist practices, double stand unjust treatment of black peo dents complain that although gents rejected the Afro-Amer tural Unit Living, all-white French and German houses e under official University sancl DEMANDING RELIEF from difficulties here, the studen an Afro-American and African Living Unit, immediate imple: of the 1970 BAM demands, a Mi fairs division which will co-or ,supportive services and prog black students, expansion of tl House facilities, allocation of funds for expansion of supportii and programs designed for blac or bettering race relations, and missions for black veterans. students ask for nothing unr only for a few conditions to r life bearable here while strivi an education. Ironically, Lee Gill, the lead pursuit of the black living uni rested shortly after the Regent adjourned, on a charge ofc parking tickets. Most blacks ref lieve that this action was an un coincidence. And while the students shou this meeting," yesterday, one wonder how long it will be bef will again have to yell "Shut it even close it down to gain son at this University. -GAYLE PC ace." By PAUL TEICH A1T LAST Monday's City Council meet- ing Mayor Harris made a long-winded ector and vicious attack on an anti-war proposal brought before council by representatives EN of the Human Rights Party. Harris' attack e Editor was a sham. It was an attempt to dis- credit he HRP wih a mass of petty dis- tortions concerning their proposal and a phony moral and legalistic analysis of f 0 0 those distortions. HRP's proposal was for a city ordinance withdrawing "all city services f r o m meeting, groups, corporations or individual c o n- ie Univer- tractors located in the city of Ann Ar- t idly by, bar which are engaged in research, devel- ct us. opment, or manufacturing of products ap- e the neg- plicable to the airwar in Southeast Asia black stu- or to the electronic battlefield." It was that "We presented at the request of both 600-700 niversity's citizens of Ann Arbor who petitioned coun- ards, and cilwith the proposal and a local anti-war ipie." Stu- group, People Against the Air War. I, ipte R- was presented for a first reading and was the Re- put up along with a request from HRP ican Cul- and PAAW that a public hearing be held Russian, before council took any decisive action exist here on the ordinance. Traditionally proposals tion. are passed on first reading. Sponsors are then given an opportunity to clarify word- continued ing and anticipate legal ambiguities be- ts ask for fore presenting the final form of the pro- a Cultural posal. This proposal however, failed on 1 Cutual first reading, 9 to 2. It failed because Mayor Harris prevent- nority Af- ed the council and the public from giving dinate all it a fair hearing. It failed because Harris ;rams for distorted the content and intent of the he Trotter proposal in his attack on it in the fol- sufficient lowing major ways: ve services 0 He claimed that the ordinance pro- k students poses withdrawal of all services to individ- open ad- uals involved in war production. The pro- So black posal, however, applies to "all groups, cor- * Harris complained that the ordinance does not clearly define who is covered by unidentified agencies. It is clear though who is covered - people engaged in the production of murder weapons for the Indochina war. 0 Harris contended that workers would lose their jobs under the ordinance. But supporters of the proposal at all times as- sumed that the final form of the ordin- ance would include protection fo. the jobs of Ann Arbor workers. They 'felt how- ever, that the place for discussion ,f such protection was the public hearing where workers' interests could be fully repre- sented rather than at the management dominated city council. 0 Harris claimed that the proposal was illegal for a variety of reasons. These reasons upon close examination however, deal with the ways the ordinance defied laws designed to protect property rights and the economic system from assault by the human interests of the people. It is time now to challenge the precedence of laws that protect the economic system be- fore protecting human life. " Mayor Harris concluded from his com- pilation of distortions that the ordinance was fascist and totalitarian and by impli- cation so were is supporters. The proposed ordinance, however, clearly in no way seeks to fascistically curtain the basic free- doms of members of any group. It seeks rather to check the reign of the profit motive over all peoples right to life. His charges can be seen in this light not as civil libertarian concern, but as a ruse to obscure the class interests he protects. IN HIS ATTACK the Mayor said he "sup- ports public education about the war but not at the expense of time and energy we need to handle city legislation." He also said he regretted having "consumed so much of council's time (15 minutes)" but that he deemed "it of the highest (import- ance that the public be educated on civil liberty as well as the electronic battle- field." The meaning of he two statements above is: I, the Mayor can use the time and energy of the council for public edu- cation I deem imoprtant, but I condemin the use of the time and energy of council for education the Human Rights Party and at least 600 citizens of Ann Arbor (signers of the petition) deem important. I feel the air war is an inappropriate, .-soteric or even obstructionist concern for City Coun- cil members. Civil liberty is an issue of paramount importance - especially when the liberty being discussed belongs to fat corporations within the city limits. The human rights, the very right to life of the entire Vietnagiese people is not a fitting concern for our government and l a w- makers. HARRIS, WHO claims to be nterested in educating the public to the issues in his speech, refused to speak to those issues to 200 people who came to his office the day of the meeting. He did not lack the time to speak to hose people. He spoke on other issues with them for an hour although they requested ne speak about the ordinance again and again. It is clear he did not speak for one reason. He did not want to give the Human Rights Party and the People Against the Air War time to prepare remarks to deal with the flood of distortions he would put forward that night. Paul Teich is a member of the local anti-war group People Against the Air War. Mayor Harris porations, or individual contractors which (Note: not who) are engaged in research development or manufacturing products ap- plicable to the airwar" in Indchina. THE INTENT of the ordinance seems clear to its supporters; no city services for people while engaged in any produc- tion stage of war material. Presumably people are not engaged in production while away from production or research facili- ties, or while on the facilities and are be- ing beaten or raped, or while walking in a park or phoning the housing inspector, etc., etc. At such times they* would be eligible for services. We regret the word- ing of the ordinance if its honest intent was not clear to all the people of Ann Arbor. easonable, elp make ng to get ler of the t, was ar- 's meeting delinquent use to be- connected ted "Stop can only ore blacks Down," or ne respect DLLARD Letters: A nfl-war struggle mustn 't die SGC fraud ease ruling To The Daily: I WRITE at a time which is for me one of depression and gloom. Gloomy because I think some of us are losing heart and have stopped demanding love instead of war. war rages around us and the bombing intensified in Vietnam and we organize Sock Hops. We must stand up again and be counted and shout 'love' at the top of our voices like we did in the past few years so that even the deaf hear us. It seems our past shouts were neither loud nor long enough, so we must contin- ue to shout for we know that tor- ture and killing continue in the dis- tant lands. I knowshat some of the young- er ones today are not haunted by the draft and so the bloodshed in Vietnam quickly becomes a dis- tant unreality. We must remember that stench of burning bodies is the same whether they be yellow or white, a mangled body as much of a tragedy be it in black, blue or green, and tears as representa- tive of sorrow whether they flow from blue or brown eyes. Even when we get tired of shouting we must somehow carry on and face unpopularity for t h e sake of truth and love. Let us take more. Remember, we live in a land of plenty and this is one war we CAN afford. -Dinesh Mohan, Grad. April 20 Dying freedom To The Daily: AFTER many years of viet nam beneath the cowl he cowers, howling sighs: black-white beady eyes bomb Mekong for hours, while up in towers lies beget more lies, excusing My Lai's, saying yours is ours. if hoods were ripped by rain and faces seen, then breaking laws would mean just tears are vain; a war refrain reveals the truth's obscene, unthreads the skein which makes our flag insane. so monkblind will he raise our victor bells, his citadelsbarecracked with useless praise; he chose the phrase to hide the truth he tells and prison cells cpmpose our victor's maze. his gods inhuman towers tolling 4I WHEN THE SGC election controversy ended at 3 a.m. yesterday, there were no winners. The Central Student Judiciary (CSJ) voted unanimously to throw out the fraud charges aimed at last nnth's all-campus elections. Hence SCC President Bill Ja- cobs of GROUP and the rest of the new SGC government can at last be consid- ered the legal representatives of the stu- dents. But SGC has nonetheless paid a high price for this final approval. A two week 4. ~~-- ---.--"+ -- I fhN A A ANe did "show the great likelihood of fraud in the election." "What this means," he continued, "is that there are a lot of naughty people running around this campus today who are smiling because they got away with something big." NOW BILL JACOBS and his Council have a strange task: they must some- how make a comeback from perhaps the lowest SGC public image in recent years. They are legal now in every official sense. But beyond catching up on Council busi- ~I%~U~ ~ --